This time it was a to be a lot larger and I decided to include a second floor making it a 3 up and 3 down house We designed it to look like a pixie house complete with lounge kitchen and bedroom but upstairs were two other rooms and a landing. As before all doors were one quarter the size of a normal door. There was also a good-sized built in garage       As it was built under the trees lighting was important so this time lighting was fitted
throughout, with lots of 2 way switches and lights.

About this time I had been made redundant and had started An Odd Job business which included doing a lot of double glazing this entailed the removed of old windows and I was able to remove one set from a modern house almost complete, without any glass being broken . With a little bit of modification I soon had the four sides and slanting roof of a “Green House” This I fitted up with tables and a proper window type door. Anne loved it and used it a lot for her seed boxes and flowers.

The end of this garden was becoming like a small village so I thought a train run would be welcomed. I obtained some 45 and 20 Gallon Oil drums and with old furniture panels soon had an American Type early 1900 4-2-0 locomotive ready to run using an old Lawn mower motor and pulling a twin boggie tender full of foam blocks pained black to look like coal.

The whole locomotive and tender were over 15 foot long so an Engine shed needed to be erected together with laying the rail track. The Locomotive had it’s own bell operated from the cab but we also had a lovely large brass bell (which used to be used to call in the gardeners for tea at the Paddocks) This we hung from a tower at the end of the locomotive shed.

At the Heathway House we made the terrace into a large Chess Board With large 3 foot high wooden pieces This game was in great demand when we had parties at the house. The grown up could play while the children played with the many toys we had built.

Our son John has carried on the tradition he built a jeep for his two children powered by a sinclair motor one Christmas he brought it over for the children to play with Arthur and Belinda sat up front while little Andrew sat on the floor at the back,

They raced around the garden really enjoying high speed travel but then we notice Andrew was crying we rushed to see what the trouble was, Poor chap his hand was covered in blood he had had it between the back of the front seat and it’s support and a finger was crushed badly.

     It was Boxing Day so not many people were available but they rushed him to casualty and had him bandaged up. When they returned he went straight to the little